The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

smokers" are said to have been evoked
by comedy recently played in Con-
necticut,
1t is reported that there is skipper
who has been so often across the At
lantic that he knows every wave by
sight.-N Y. Telegram.
"A scientist says that thinking men
live thirty-three years longer than men
who don't think. We always knew
that it wasn't eating that prolonged
our life. Philadelphia Press.
Philadelphia papers estimate from
the assessors list of voters, numbering
1902, and accept the basis of four
voters to every seventeen inhabitants,
as by the last census, that their city
has now population of 973.641
"A six-year-old girl in Florida
dropped her kitten down well over
fifty feet deep, and at her earnest en-
treaty her father lowered her down by
the we'll rope. She got the kitten out
all right and was pulled up again
damp, but happy.
The strength of hand and wrist
necessary to the professional presti-
ligitatcr was illustrated by Hermann
the other day. He took new pack Of
ordinary linen-back cards and broke 1t
in two, then broke one of the halves
into quarters. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Some American sent the Gar OF
Russia glass paper-weight with q
turtle in it, but the young man didn't
propose to have his head blown off in
that way. He ordered it soaked in n
tub of water for three weeks before II
was pronounced safe for use.-Detr0a
Free Press.
i Three ladies and young girl, the
latter but eleven years of age, went
into Xcnia CO., store to get weighed
and their combined weight was TAG
pounds. One lady weighed III pounds,
one 269, and the third POI, while the
l1-year-old girl weighed 1O5.-Ctece-
land Leader.
A whole army of bats invaded the
building of the Smithville (Ga,) NeUS
one nj ght recently, and after putting
out the lights by the Tapping of their
wings dashed headlong at the printers
and made things lively for them for the
space of an hour or so. 1t was not
until after their leader was slain that
they beat retreat and answered to roll
call in the woods hard by.
-Allis Brown, colored man OF
Nashville, Tenn, succeeded in steal
ing enough furniture to fit up house,
to which he took his newly-madc bride,
The stolen articles, which were after
ward found in his house by detectives,
consisted of every known household
continuance. Among them were Q
handsome set of silverware, four GOO
clocks, several carpets and chairs, ele'
giant sets of bedroom and parlor furni
ture, and Blble.-LoUiSeille Courier
Journal
Tho other day Engineer Merritt
on an east-bound d., i. Il w. trait
from Binghampton, saw a buck on thu
! track ahead of him. On one side wa
steep mountain, on the other a thirty
foot embankment. Turner pulled thu
throttle wide open and made after TIN
3 buck at full speed. The chase wa
! short. The locomotive gradually CLOSED
, on the frightened deer, and at lengtl
caught it, and, as it happened, held
a entangled on the cowcatcher, wher
!, the fireman killed It.. M Y, San.
4 Hon. ii. j. Cookinham went I
v Bisby Lodge, in the North Woods
taking with him deerhound owned /
@ this city. The dog was taken on tn
= cars from Utica to Boonville, thence t
a Bisby Lodge, and thence to the sont
q branch of the Moose river, about eigh
Il miles further into the heart of th
!. wilderness. He remained here but on
/. day, when he was put out for dee
II He probably found none, as he II
tnrned to the home of his master
a Utica the next day. How he foun
h the way is marvellous. Utica N. Y.
:. Press.
r. 1t was Sir Walter Raleigh VIII
n gained the favor of his gracious Quec
$. 6y spreading his cloak upon mus
b. spot so that Elizabeth could save ht
e, boots a-wetting. 1t was lesser youl
10 who opened pew door for an oil
is lady, and afterward got 100000 fl
Is ais trouble. And now 1t is Rlchai
v Lighttower, an English carpenter, wi
to mas just received E25, 600 in proper
i'd and fl, 450 in money by the will of
Mt stranger. 1t appears that he on
II. pulled this stranger out of the Riv
Tyne. but Mr.. Lighttower had forge
zen the incident.
Mrs. Eleanor Moore died
!. Georgetown, Maine, q few day ag
having llVeu HVe uhyS more thhll "
no hundred years. On her birthda
n. October 4, she said to her son: II
lis day I'm one hundred years old. G
of it be possiblep 1t seems like dream
RI The day before her death she repeat
OF several passages of Scripture, and !
he last words, an hour before she die
70. we're: Good bless you all. Good-l
ri darlings. I'm going home" Thu
M children. fifteen grandchildren, tvs
,er ty-eight great-grandchildren and 9
les great-great-grandchild survive her.
tie Among the visitors at Gettysbu
he Pa, recently, was Stephen Walk
w. night clerk of the Office of the Phi
DIV burgh Post. 1t was his first day
Mt. duty for over twenty-five years. ID
by ing all that time his holidays have b
on the days on which there was no W
eat to be done on the paper. In the forl
days of journalism It was the Gust
not to issue any paper on the day
on lowing Thanksgiving, the Fourth
=" July, Christmas and other holds
nd. Not to lose a day by so important
tie event as his marriage, Mr.. Walker
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